This is totally different from other contrast tools as you can also check opacity too.

The reason I’ve been interested in using it is that I’ve been working with online maps and how to best show weather (rain, temperature etc) as a layer over the top of the map. Not actually how you technically get the map to show but how you would display it so that you can best see and interpret it. When you start looking into it there are lots of variables – what type of map background do you need (e.g. terrain, satellite, placenames, roads etc) and then how to best display colours on the top to show each weather type – singly or multiple layers.

Opacity needs to be used so that you can see the map features underneath but you also have to be careful that you don’t wash out the colour or change the colour (by it mixing with the map colours underneath) so that you can’t tell what it’s showing.